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Interior of the car
The interior of the car stayed pretty standard, as I had
budgeted heavily on the bodywork at the start. Unfortunately
the progress was slow...but I managed to buy an old 1.3 SR
for parts, costing only £200.
The first stage was the transfer of the dash
from the SR, that was pretty easy. Running a wire from the coil
into the back of the dash was the trickiest bit
I had investigated various methods for re-trimming the interior,
all of which were going to cost a fortune, but
a little company in
Campsie, Northern Ireland came to the rescue.
They did custom seat covers, so basically I stripped out the
seats from the car, left them at the factory for a week, and
the guys created a custom fit set of covers for them.
I decided to choose black and blue to complement the white,
and also I love that electric blue colour.
The bill came to £85, and the job was as good as a full custom seat retrim!
I also bought some extra material as I intended to make some custom
door pods for speakers, but that was consigned to the
failed door pods page
Due to lack of time, and the purchace of an
Astra GTE this project
was abandoned, and I just stuck some of the material onto
the existing door cards, which ended up looking pretty cool
anyway!
The only thing it really needed was all the grey plastic
on the interior painted black - that was the next stage
if I had been keeping the car
I had electric windows in the car, but the switches were
in the door pods, so when I was selling the car I removed
them
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